10 Things I Hate About You Analysis

10 Things I Hate About You


The music starts up firstly and then the first of the production companies is introduced (touchstone pictures) the logo is simple, blue, times new roman writing, with a blue circle to the left of the writing a flash travels through the writing from the right towards the circle and flashes into a lightening strike inside the blue circle.
Then the film itself presents touchstone pictures in a teenage doodle type text.
As the music gets into the song the film credits carry on in colorful doodle writing to say (a mad chance / jaret entertainment production)
The establishing shot is a cartoon sketched picture of new york from a high angle of the city viewing the tops of the buildings, the camera shots through all the stages of the picture being drawn over and over again until its a real life photograph which turns into the opening scene.
The camera then starts to pan track over the city into a street.
Whilst the film starts, it introduces the title of the film "10 things i hate about you" the actors begin to be introduced
(Julia stiles, heath ledger, Joesph Gordan-Levitt, Larisa oleynik, Larry miller, Andrew Keenan, David krumholtz)
The opening scene proceeds into the story,there is a sound bridge from where the soundtrack turns into the music, where a load of fun giggly girls pull up in a blue car and are dancing to the music (which is the soundtrack but bridges into what the music coming from the red, loud car that then pulls up next to them, with one of the films characters driving listening to rocky loud music they have a tense moment between them, then they pull off from the traffic lights.
The scene cuts into a college where it shows students doing different activities, carries on with its actor introduction,
(Susan maypratt, Daryl chill Mitchell and Alison Janney, David leisure, Gabriell's) union then goes on to introduce casting.
The camera then follows the girl from the red car through the college as she rips down a poster for prom in anger. then the scene cuts into the film which is the end.

Rock N Rolla Film Analysis

Rock N Rolla


The beginning of rock and rolla’s opening scene starts with a tracking shot of a old dark warehouse because its so dark and gloomy its quite hard to make out.
The camera tracks to the right towards a wall this is where the production companies start to be introduced.
All companies are introduced in a way that looks like it is graffiti on to the wall as each logo has a white paint dripping effect and each look a little bit splashed on and messy, with the walls looking gungy and wet, to match with the old warehouse.
The first production company appears (A Warner Brothers Production) the production logo is the initials WB in a shape of a shield, the logo is very famous so the audience will already know that its gold however its faded so it looks white for the graffiti effect.
As the camera pans and tracks from logo to logo the noises in the background are noises you would hear in a warehouse e.g. clogs and wheels turning and metal clanking there's not much noise but every now and again especially going from one production to the next the noises sound, much like the noises from a rarely used dirty machine.
The camera then pans down the wall and across the floor to the next production company (dark castle entertainment) which is an outline shadow of a castle with the moon behind it with right writing producing the name of the production.
The camera then goes up the wall and tracks across the floor, the next production company is in the distance in what looks like a arched, stone door way the camera pan / zooms into the logo showing (a toff guy films ltd) the picture is in black and white (like the other logos) and shows a black man sitting in a leather arm chair holding a gun in one hand and smoking a cigar with the other he is wearing what looks like a posh suit and has a lot of jewelry and a crown on his head.
The last production shown, the camera pans to the right and is just writing which introduces (a guy Richie film)
The soundtrack is still consisting of dripping noises and metal clogs, the sounds go really well with the start of the film.
Before the last production fades away the voice over begins in the background which starts introducing the storyline of the film
(voice over: people ask the question, whats a rock n rolla? … and I tell ‘em, its not about drums drugs and hospital drips, oh no, there's more there than that my friend, we all like a bit of the good life, some the money, some the drugs, others the sex game, the glamor or the fame, but a rock n rolla, oh ‘es different, why?, because a real rock n rolla wants the fuckin’ lot)
The way the voice over speaks to the audience is very informal and sort of friendly, very slang like.
While the man is saying the voice over the picture starts fading in with the establishing shot, from the dark its far away and the camera again pan / tracks into the picture getting closer and closer showing the audience the back of a boy/man with his top off swaying from side to side, as the camera gets closer it starts getting clearer and lighter so the audience can start to make out more, like what the mans doing, which as the camera gets nearer the man pulls a gun from behind him that’s shoved in the top of his trousers as the man turns around to face the camera the camera is zoomed in so much the frame is only his middle half showing he has a really big bong in one hand he pulls the trigger of the gun and a flame pops out the end (of the lighter) and he lights his bong.
Then there are flash backs of this man downing shots of vodka, having hard sex with a girl in a public toilet, and then pulling two guns out from a holster then throwing them up in the air and pointing them out in front of him.
This image of him with the guns freezes and turns into a cartoon image where then the name of the film blasts out onto the screen, the camera pans from illustration to illustration with animation bursting out from each person introducing characters there the animation also draws part of the background setting where the cartoon characters are
(Gerard butler, tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, mark strong, Idris Elba, tom hardy, Karel roden, Toby kebbell, jimi mystry, Geoff bell, Matt king, featuring jimi piven, Chris bridges)
The end of the illustrated characters is a man and the design fades back into the real image of the man they zoom into him and the voice over procedes, now the audience know that, this is the person who has been talking to them
(my names Archie, formally known as Archie boy)
The screen goes black which is the end of the opening scene.

i could not find the opening sequence to rock and rolla however many of the opening sequence is in the trailer therefore we have added that.

Genre research and influences

Our film is a romantic comedy and will included teenagers and the normal thing that they get up to, so one of the programmes we looked at that includes all of these thing as well was skins. It is a TV show that shows a group of teenage friends, who basically go to parties, drink, do drugs, have sex go to school and various other things. It also shows teen romance which is obviously what our film is mainly about. skins shows the issues teenagers have.

We also looked at mean girls as it shows the different clicks of group their are at college for example; plastics, nerds, etc. This was useful as we are thinking of having a party in our film and there will be different clicks and social groups their.

The video for lady gaga was also quite suited to our media as their is a house party going on in the music video, like their there will be a house party in our opening sequence. It shows people drunk and getting with each other so normal things that happen at a house party which we may include in our opening sequence.

story board

This is our storyboard is shows the main events that will take place which is teenagers at college and then a party scene that will take place. The theme tune is Lady Gaga as we felt it was quite an upbeat song that fitted well with our storyline. The video also ties in well as it happens at a house and there is party going on. We are not sure whether it will be the tune we actually use, but it will be a similar party like tune. The storyboard also shows that there will be a main guy and girl that will end up being the main character in the film and the two that will end up together.

Mood Board

This is our Mood Board we thought it represents all the things we are going to include in our opening sequence such as; sex, drugs, alcohol, teenagers, romance, music and partying. It is the basic aspects that would happen at a normal teenage party which is what our opening sequence will be including flash backs of a party, so all these thing will be included in our film. Our main key feature will be that you start to see the beginning of a romance going to happen which will obviously be what the film is about, however we are only doing an opening clip so it will just insinuate who is going to end up together, but will hopefully be very obvious so the audience can see who it will be, all the other like sex and drugs etc will be included in the storyline aswell.

Genre Conventions

There were 5 different genre conventions that we had to choose from:

• Teenage romance comedy

This involves having a cast involving Teenagers that may have scenes which could make it obvious that it was of that age, like filming in a college or having actions that are quite stereotypical of a teenager like smoking, taking drugs, having sex etc. The romantic side would be filmed like maybe having inexperienced teenagers and also the experienced and following a story of two in love. For example- John Tucker Must Die

• Supernatural thriller with lead woman

Supernatural is usually considered as fiction and having fictional characters playing, involving the thriller side would make it quite an action film with lots happening in it that would keep you involved and may be quite scary at times. So it would have different supernatural sort of out of this world things in it. The lead would be a woman, so giving women the more important part than men. For example- The Ring

• British Social Realist drama 

This would be showing a lot of different people in England and how they live. The different cultures in life, poor, rich. How people live and deal with different situations. The story usually involves a lot of different types of people living in different places and looking at how they live their lives so differently. For example- This Is England

• Crime caper with ensemble cast

Usually a group of main characters who are involved in crimes. There's usually lots of scenes with action where you see maybe gruesome parts, a lot of fighting and shows how people can commit crime very well. There's hustling, lying and  most of everything they do is illegal. For example- Oceans 11

• Children's adventure movie

This has a target audience of children, so it usually has easy conversations with young people in and adults who could be nice and easy to understand. Adventures are exciting where there's a lot of action and the story is fiction with a lot of interesting characters and scenes. For example- Chronicles of Narnia

production logo

This is our production logo, we thought it suited the genre we are doing which is romantic comedy. We thought it was well suited as teenagers often smoke which is what the girl is doing. Our production logo name is A Valley Girl Production so the fact that it is a girl smoking also tied in well with out production logo name. The girl is probably around a teenage age again fitting in well with our genre of romantic comedy and teenagers. We thought writing a Valley Girl Production in white would be a good contrast with the pink lipstick and the white cigarette. The production logo would be on a black back round again contrasting with the pink. Our logo is also quite girlie which we thought would be quite suited as our names production name had the word girl in and is based around girls.

We got the picture from of a photography website and in photoshop we edited out the black around it and added on our production name.